7 Layers Model

This blog covers an important restatement of our 7 layer model of manuscript interpretation. In particular, Layer 4 is being redefined. We also introduce more features in the Story Grid app. Then shop notes deal with software updates and finally a headline review.

The Dream

Back when I was working on the Bible Time and Bible Tribes projects full time, I had a prophetic dream where I was shown a 7 layer model for how to interpret scripture.

That model itself, in some ways, overlays a well known 7 layer ISO model for interpreting computer communications. That ISO model was the framework needed to build the internet as we know it now. At the time, I was already familiar with the ISO model, so there was some affinity from that model to the 7 layer model I was being shown in the dream.

We have used that 7 layer model for interpreting scripture to powerful effect over the years. It has given us a way to categorize various problems presented by the manuscripts that we deal with all the time. I would expect to eventually end up with a 7 Layer model exhibit as part of the family of exhibits that hang on the wall. It is a powerful model.

This past week Ryan and I have reviewed that model in light of our work over the past 25+ years. We have decided to make a conceptual change at layer 4, the middle layer in that model. So in this blog I am reintroducing the 7 layer model but with our best understanding of each layer and how each layer is used.

Background

When I had that first dream about the 7 layer model, neither Ryan nor I were particularly interested in manuscript work. We had not yet taken any Hebrew languages classes. We knew nothing about Paleo. Ryan had not started his early Bible Dots nor Book Order work. So we did not really need to have a 7 layer framework. The dream itself was foreshadowing much of the work which would come in following years.

In the dream, Layer 4 was described as "Idiom." In our discussions this week we now believe that term was a place holder for the real layer 4, which we could not even conceive of at the time.

It is very important to note that sometimes true prophetic must provide fill in for details that cannot yet be understood. None of us can receive prophetic words if the subject of that prophetic word is outside of our understanding. We needed to know about the 7 Layers even if we had no idea of one of the layers.

I am going to step through the layers in order from bottom to top. On an actual wall exhibit, layer 1 is the bottom layer. The exhibit then climbs up, or builds up, across the more abstract layers.

If I was building a primary school curriculum that introduced scripture to new and/or especially young students, that curriculum would have an intentional order that moves from the bottom of the 7 layers up through the top. You will see why as I step through those layers here.

Precursors

The layers of interpretation are dealing with the manuscript of inspired scripture as given to a reader. Before the reader can even start, the precursor lessons naturally involve familiarity with the complete set of 3d models and related exhibits.

Conceptually, these form an exhibit room were students can become familiar with each series of 3d models and the ways those models are displayed.

The silver set, for example, is placed on the vine. Those models are also assembled into a Sower and Reaper.

The gold set is placed on a mountain exhibit. These models assemble into a Silo and Well.

The copper set sits in the table exhibit. It shows off the Qu Map and drawn letter forms for each letter. These models define the meaning of each letter.

The bronze set is placed on a river exhibit. They assemble in various ways into a series of trees that show off the life cycle of plants or more specifically the life cycle of trees.

The centerpiece of the room is the Fig Tree, which combines the gold and silver series. This shows off the conceptual system for the ciphers which are used for more volumes.

Around the walls of the room are a few more major and minor wall hangings. These include, say, Joseph's Robe, the Story Grid, the Tribes, the Scripts and a few others, like the 7 Layers of interpretation, clock and calendar.

There is also an upper room. The primary exhibits there are the Crown and Eden models.

Introductory students must understand the 3d system, at least at a conceptual level. They need to see how the models form a closed system of shapes. They start with infinitely repeating stars. They end with infinitely repeating plants.

With a general introduction to these models, the student can now begin to learn the various systems needed to understand the text. Let me reintroduce those interpretive layers here.

Layer 1: Alphabet

The foundation for all other writing, is the set of symbols used to write the text. These form the inspired alphabet. These shapes are taught with the Table Exhibit. That exhibit holds 25 objects that define each letter as well as 3 glyphs that are used for punctuation. The Sha letter, for example, is a molar tooth. Each of the other letters have a similar model.

Punctuation is also part of the 3d model and part of the alphabet. These will modify the sound system, impacting how vowels are otherwise sounded out.

The vowel system itself is taught on the silver set of models. Shared vowels also impacts the audit system that inspired text must pass.

Students pass this class when they can identify each letter, name the underlying object and can pronounce each letter with that letter's correct vowel. They should also be able to explain where these lessons are found in the 3d system.

Layer 2: Root Words/Spelling

In that dream 25+ years ago I only knew the English versions of scripture. English is unique on earth in that it has lost nearly all tenses. This happened in history in the British Isles when 2 different foreign invaders were speaking with the natives. Collectively, they had 3 different systems of tenses, though they shared many of the same root words. The public could only speak with each other through shared roots. So word order became more important and words were added to English to cover what had been word endings. Through this process, English generally lost most word forms. English still has a few word forms, like past tense, but not many others.

I have seen repeated comments by English speakers trying to learn Russian, that the biggest problem is understanding the Russian language's system of tenses. This is in part because there is no longer any equivalent in English. So learning Russian requires learning a new system of constructing sentence grammar.

I have also seen where speakers who are "English as a Second Language" don't understand there are a few tenses left in English. Nima Alkhorshid on Dialog works still misses a few of those strange English tenses.

I also remember traveling to China. I was taught that the meaning of Chinese sentences can be changed on the fly based on the speaker picking up on social cues from the listener. This is because word order does not strictly define Chinese. Diplomacy involving Chinese is a very high art.

We don't yet have enough audited Paleo sentences, but word order appears to be less fixed than we know in English.

Root Words

This past winter I crawled through the design for a Greek lexicon of a Greek language Bible. In the end, I was really learning how to construct a reasonable Paleo lexicon, which I will be doing here soon. Greek has many more tenses than English. So it was an education in how to organize and explain words in a language system with many tenses. That Greek lexicon was sorted around root words. By looking at many examples, I could finally see why this is important. The learning problem begins by learning how to spell and define the root words.

Every variant form, so every tense, of the root words that exist in the base Greek text were then listed under the Greek root. Those root words are a Layer 2 learning problem. The spelling of common tenses may also be a Layer 2 problem. But combining roots with tenses will be a Layer 3 problem as they appear and only make sense when found within full sentences.

I noticed at least 1 Greek root had maybe 2 dozen forms found across the Greek text of the Bible. So in Greek, for example, there is a huge list of possible variants on the root words. Except for names, most Greek root words have at least a few different forms that show up in the Greek manuscript.

So in the dream 25+ years ago, the name for this layer was just "spelling." To an English speaker this is enough. But in Paleo this should really be the spelling of root words. So the name of this layer should be Root Words, or more simply just Roots.

In Paleo, the spelling of a root ties to the meaning of the word itself. The dictionary meaning of a word comes from the spelling of the root. There are both primary and secondary definitions tied to the letter pairing as found in the silver set, so the Vine exhibit. So each root word has a pair of definitions based on spelling.

Students need to be able to work the word definition system as expressed by the spelling and the associated 3d systems. This is a system that can be easily memorized. Ryan and I have known it for many years. This level of understanding and finding basic word definitions is the job of layer 2.

Layer 3: Sentence/Grammar

So in English, sentences can be thought of as a list of words. 25+ years ago, this was how I understood this layer. The few English words with various tenses, like past tense, or plurals, are contributing to the meaning of the sentence, but not seriously impacting grammar.

But in Paleo, there are more endings than we know in English. The basic grammar is tied to word endings. So the grammar is tied to the tenses of words. So English can be thought of as a simple list of dictionary words, but this is a simplification if used with Paleo. In Paleo sentences, the words are more often modified with forms that match the needs of the sentence grammar.

In Paleo, a sentence has meaning that is found by understanding the forms of the words, not just their order. So the word tense system is tied to the grammar more tightly than we know in English.

In any case, being able to read a sentence for its meaning is the purpose of this 3rd layer of interpretation. Students of the language pass this level in the curriculum when they are able to read a sentence and understand what it says.

Note: ISO Layer 3: Translations

The ISO model of computer communications suggests that changing out network transmission hardware happens just above Layer 3. So changing from twisted pair wired Ethernet to Fiber Optic or Wifi happens at or just above this layer.

Note that translating a Paleo manuscript would also conceptually happen just above layer 3. This is where each sentence forms a unique block of writing, with a matched meaning.

The reader of an English translation will loose the important Paleo word definition system. But, they could at least become familiar with the general stories of inspired text.

Readers of translations from Paleo will also not be able to speak in the native tongue with Kings, nor with they be able to speak with residents of Eden, but I digress.

Layer 4: Story

This is the layer that is getting redefined in this blog post. In the dream this was called idiom. I now believe idiom to have been a place holder for something that we are only now fully understanding.

For many years, Ryan has been studying idiom in the BRB. He has been marking up words with strong idiomatic meaning. There are currently options in the BRB that enable or disable idiomatic highlights.

After many years of searching, these idiomatically important words are very rare. They have not become a very exhaustive list as would be expected for a full interpretive layer.

If idiomatic meaning is tied to root word meanings, Idiom might be considered a function of Layer 2 or even better, a function of the lexicon. Idiom is not a comprehensive system that has meaning across all parts of the text.

So what is the correct system of interpretation which would naturally sit at Layer 4?

Ryan has been putting a huge amount of work into the Story Grid. This has been an ongoing project since we first taped 3x5 cards to the living room wall in Tulsa, just before we moved from there to Colorado in late 2017?

Sentences group together into stories. The overall list of stories is the highest level view of the inspired text itself. There is a massive amount of meaning for each story that is found when that story is paired against other stories using the grid.

So what I am stating here in this blog is that Layer 4 of the layers of interpretation is the Story Grid itself.

Once a reader can understand the simple textual meaning of any given story, then that reader should learn how to compare and contrast that story to the matched stories as found across the Story Grid.

Note that we expect stories to be an inspired system, unlike chapters in modern Bibles. We don't expect book level groupings of stories to be all that important. Current work with the Story Grid is bearing this out. Stories are a very important conceptual layer.

Stories Are Like Addresses

This story layer basically completes the address system for inspired text. Imagine a printed Paleo Testimony. You open it. It is organized into 625 stories. Each story pairs off to other stories. This is the top layer of interpretation with reasonable side annotation in the printed form of the book itself.

Curiously, the Story Grid is organized around the Paleo Alphabet. Story pairs are found through the same systems of letter pairing as used for word definitions and for the trees in the bronze set of 3d models. So the Story Grid is bringing systems learned in the lower layers to bear on the overall design of the entire text.

We have previously considered the Story Grid to be a function of Layer 6. This shift clears out Layer 6 to have a better, simpler, definition. More on that below.

Layer 5: Symbolic

This layer covers all symbolic meaning found cross the text. Symbolic meaning has a series of uses depending on context.

Symbols reward students who have learned the text particularly well. Simple symbolic terms often capture large conceptual frameworks that are explained in detail in various places as found across the text.

Symbols are also used as a sort of "prisoner speech" where a writer can speak in important ways where not all listeners have earned the right to understand. For example, a prisoner might use coded language to speak past a prison guard.

Joshua often speaks in the text in ways that Zionists cannot correctly comprehend. He was particularly fond of this sort of speech when speaking to the Pharisees of Jerusalem in his day.

Symbolic meaning is captured in all of the normal use of lists. A list of 4 deals with ciphered documents. A list of 6 deals with the villains. A list of 12 deals with tribes. A list of 24 deals with both Isaac and Ishmael's tribes as a whole, as well as their match set of 24 heavenly kings.

Symbolic terms used in the text are often just names for the exhibits and/or their functions. Though these are not particularly hard to figure out when a student knows the exhibits, they are often showing up in symbolic stories that involve the exhibits.

Story pairing in Layer 5 can reveal symbolic meaning. Story pairing, at times, makes no sense without knowing the symbolic meaning involved. This has been Ryan's challenge in working out which stories are inspired and where they go in the Story Grid itself.

Note that the symbolic meaning sits in a layer above the stories because symbolic meaning does not make much sense unless the reader is generally familiar with all of the stories found in inspired text.

Layer 6: Prophetic (Time and Place)

In the dream 25+ years ago this layer was defined as following a mapping rule from 1 domain to another. The examples at the time were always given using date related math. "1 day is as 1000 years" is an example from 2 Peter 3:8. If you know this rule, you can map between systems that count days and those that count 1000s of years.

This works internally to the text for building up matched timelines. It also works externally to the text in order to understand events in world history as following stories in the text. This is the interpretive layer that sets us up for applying the text to world, which is Layer 7.

The Qu Map is another example from Layer 6. The rule for Qu Maps is similar. Anything that maps to a letter will also map to a place on the Qu Map.

The Lost Tribes are found using time to find a place, or set of places, that tie people groups in the world back into the text.

Except for the Story Grid, now at Layer 4, we have not found any category of prophetic writing that is NOT tied to time and/or place in some way. There are symbolic names, so layer 5, given to people and places in the modern world. Those parties often get their identities through timeline studies.

We know modern Israel as related to Benjamin in some way because of predicted, dated, events for 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1974. Again, this is a prophetic use of time to learn the identity of a specific place. From that pairing, then various stories from the text can be applied to those places.

We know the other tribes by their seal dates. We know much about Russia because of 1000 years of Christianity in that nation. Again, we connect stories to the world almost exclusively through the use of the timeline.

Once we make those connections, we can then also make prophetic claims about those same nations because we can tie that nation to stories in the text.

There will eventually be an upper room exhibit, called the Crown, which takes this entire category and expresses it in a timeline like form. That exhibit will pick up important repeating cycles that cannot be seen without the exhibit itself.

Layer 7: Application/Sabbath

This is the top layer in the 7 layer model. In the dream the word "Application" was used for this layer. This is the same name as given to Layer 7 in the ISO 7 layer model of computer communications. In that ISO model, the 7th layer means the network made a reliable connection. The computer user is now connected to a remote application. Say a website. The computer user is now concerned with application issues, like watching a video.

In our case, this Layer 7 is where the text takes a rest. The text takes a Sabbath. The text now asks the user to interact with some real world subject itself.

We were not following Sabbath when that dream happened 25+ years ago. So the term Sabbath did not have much lived meaning. Now it does. Sabbath is the day when readers should be interacting with the text itself. This is done in order to apply it to the real world in some way.

The main point of this layer is that it is up to the reader to decide what to do with the text. Are you going to follow Joshua? Or not? Are you going to learn about how the world follows the text? Or not? Are you going to stay away from the teaching of the scribes and pharisees? Or not?

Ciphered Documents

So now there is the question about ciphered documents. We expect cipher work to come after the audit is finished. We expect more documents to cipher out of the based inspired text. We expect some of those ciphered documents to be known to history as ancient, but off-canon, written works. We also expect those off-canon works to have been edited, just like everything else from history.

Where do these additional texts sit in this 7 Layer model?

Here is a way to visualize the answer. Imagine the story grid as a tiled floor. A big floor, in a large room, with 25 tiles by 25 tiles.

Now imagine putting a printed copy of each story on each of the respective tiles.

Next, imagine those stories go through ciphers. Where do you put the resultant ciphered stories?

The answer starts out relatively simple. Just stack each result of the ciphers back on top of the original story from which it was ciphered. So the ciphers sit in the original spot on the story grid along with the base story.

That imaginary floor will stack up with more stories. But they will be arranged in the same way as the base stories already in place. Besides connecting down to the base text, the ciphered stories should also connect to each other just like all the base stories already connect.

The set of content in the ciphered stories becomes available for interpretation through the same 7 Layer model used for the base text. Those ciphered documents are constructed through letters arranged in words which form into sentence. They sit in the story grid, so pair off through the grid like other stories. They will use the same general set of symbols as the base text. (Though they may introduce more.) They will connect to the timeline in various ways. They will finally also apply to the world.

So the 7 Layer model of interpretation will also apply to ciphered stories.

Story Grid

Perhaps in keeping with the Story Grid becoming Layer 4 in our new understanding of the 7 Layer model, the Story Grid app was significantly updated again this week. These new features are worth noting. The link here is to the Story Grid app. The permanent link is on the front of Paleo.In.

The power of this app is that it shows the relations between stories. This has been an important tool for figuring out what stories are inspired. Once our recovery work is complete, this app becomes the functional equivalent of a Study Bible. So it has a permanent place in our app lineup. It is the place for understanding Layer 4 related issues in the inspired text.

Canceling Study Bibles

Study Bibles are traditionally important tools because they allow readers to understand what stories in standard Bibles are thought to mean. I remember when I was young member of a Bible Study. Everyone in that study had a certain specific Study Bible. It was giving us a reference for explaining what the various stories in the Bible are thought to have meant.

I also distinctly remember when the members of our Bible Study felt a particular note in that Study Bible was provably false. Our collective illusion of invincibility and trust had been shattered.

We tried to share what we found with someone at church the following Sunday. They refused to listen. They treated the Study Bible's note AS IF it was inspired text. They were obviously caught in some sort of Study Bible trap. In their mind, it wasn't even theoretically possible to come up with an alternative interpretation. What was printed in the side notes was more trustworthy than truth from other scriptural passages.

When our Bible Study had gathered again, and could speak freely, we were basically done with using Study Bibles at all. We did not like how authority of printed notes overrode basic truth.

The way the notes in Study Bibles were trusted when they should not be trusted was the tip of a very big iceberg. Little did I know at the time that Study Bibles are how the Zionists took Protestant Christians far from traditional Christianity in order to specifically support Israel. We were sitting ducks for evil.

Story Pairs

In the end, interested readers still have a need for a tool for understanding what, exactly, each inspired story is actually about.

The correct way to solve this problem is by comparing story against story. Or by studying alternative runs of stories. This does NOT need a human author to come along and explain how tradition explains a story. All this really needs is a tool for showing which stories pair to other stories. That is the enduring purpose of the Story Grid app.

Grid Headings

The Story Grid app itself is a giant map of the 625 stories. They are arranged on a 25x25 grid. Each square has a 2 letter code that shows the row/column within the grid. Tap any story and a pop up shows the text for that story.

So far, this is just a strange form of a table of contents in a regular copy of the The Testimony. The text in the Story Grid app is ultimately the same as the text in The Testimony. The same stories as found in The Testimony can be easily read in order just by tapping the Story Grid squares in their numeric order.

Where the Story Grid app gets interesting is in the pop ups found in the left and top labels along the sides of the main grid. Those pop ups have been reworked in this week's release of the Story Grid app in an important way.

Those pop ups have always been the place for Ryan's notes as he has been working out the story placements in this grid. Those notes still remain. Some of his notes are complete. Some are yet to be filled in as he continues to work out the inspired form of the overall Story Grid.

Ryan's notes are like the scaffolding used for building refurbishment. They are there to get the place rebuilt. They provide his evidence that the grid is filled in correctly. The audit work should eventually confirm the work Ryan is doing. We'll see. Can audit indicate book order? Maybe. Maybe not.

Variant Reads

What has been added this week are quick links to important variant reads for both the rows and columns. A variant read is an alternative story reading order driven by some known alphabet related system. There are 2 variant reads that come from the 3d system. The first is from the Vine exhibit. The second is from the River exhibit.

Both of these exhibits ultimately arrange the alphabet in specific and unique ways that are NOT the normal alphabetic order. For the Vine exhibit, the variant read story order is found by "climbing the vine." A memory peg is like how Jack climbed the Bean Stalk. For the River exhibit, the variant read story order is found by "floating the river." A memory peg is to imagine floating down the Jordan river on a raft from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea.

In both of these adventures, the goal is to discover new stuff on the journey.

Note that the Quad letter is at the top of the Vine. That letter is also in the Sea of Galilee. So climbing the vine to the Quad story is the turn around point for floating the river.

Quick Access

So this week, the pop ups for the rows and columns have gained quick access to these variant reads for each of the respective rows and columns. So if you want to climb the vine, or float the river, you can do so by just tapping the header pop up and then tapping a choice along the top edge of the pop up itself.

The Sabbath Reads, available in the Sabbath Reads app, are yet another alternative column related read on the Story Grid. So the Sabbath Read variations are also provided in the pop ups for the column headers.

Enough of the Story Grid seems to have come together that it is now possible to see some of the promise of these variant reads. This is all still subject to change, Ryan is still working on this problem, so beware. Let me share an example so you can see what we are seeing and get a sense of the promise of what will come from this.

Vine Read Details

The Vine read starts with the Mo letter. As currently arranged, the Book of Psalms occupies the Mo row on the Story Grid. So Climbing the Vine will always begin with a Psalm.

For the far left column of the Story Grid, climbing the vine will begin with story 325, Psalm 1, about how blessed is the man who does not walk in the way of evil, nor stays in the counsel of sinners, nor sits in the company of mockers... Whatever he begins he accomplishes. It also contrasts this with the wicked, who will be like chaff blown away, not justified in the judgment, who will not sit in the assembly and finally how the wicked will perish.

These are the themes we would expect through the rest of the Vine Read. So we are watching for examples that compare and contrast these ideas.

Staying in this column, the next Vine letter will be the Yo. So story 250. This is currently the start of Tobit. Tobit is perhaps one of the most extreme examples of the ideal described in Psalm 1. The start of Tobit gives us his credentials, and all the things he typically did to help others.

The Vine read then moves to Oo. In this column, story 400, which is Joshua's early years. So Joshua is going to be following Psalm 1 like Tobit does. In this story of Joshua's early life we learn how he was taken to Egypt following direction given to Joseph in a dream. Here baby Joshua and his parents are being protected from evil Herod. Once Herod died, Joseph was free to return his family back to the land of Jacob. The death of Herod can be easily seen as an example from Psalm 1. We are seeing an example about how Joshua often protects those who follow him. In this case by hiding in Egypt.

The Vine read then moves to the Jo. This will be story 175. This is the account of king Joash. The distinctive feature of this story is how Joash is hidden by his nurse while evil queen Athaliah is ruling the land. This is another example of being hidden from evil. That queen is eventually killed by palace guards once the young king is old enough to be brought out in public. This an example of what eventually happens to evil, though it adds how it can take years for that to happen.

Let me skip ahead to the end of this particular Vine read. The vertical Vine read always ends on the Quad row, so the bottom row of the Story Grid. This is usually a story from Revelation. In this case the first column Vine read will end with story 600. This is the introduction to Revelation. It begins with a vision of Joshua coming in the clouds. This is like earlier examples of waiting for deliverance from evil. In this case, the wait is measured in historical time, not personal time.

This final Vine read story continues with details of John's situation. From the earlier stories in the Vine read, we can assume John was on Patmos for some reason related to safety or protection. We can also assume that he was an example of someone whom Joshua favored, like some of the earlier examples in the Vine read itself. In this case, John's is rewarded with what will become a visit to Eden. This is, of course, the main goal of life itself.

The Promise In Alternative Reads

There is enough promise in these reads to think these alternative reading orders are useful and intended as the inspired alternatives to Study Bibles. Just reading the text in ways that show off connections is a much more satisfying way to find deeper meaning in the text.

It will be much more difficult for low cognitive ability readers to confuse Zionist notes with inspired text. This is a nice feature for large groups of people who may assemble together. There will always be a few people with low cognitive ability in any large group of people. Even when they don't really get the story, at least they can learn regular text instead of learning to quote someone's Zionist notes.

Once the entire Story Grid is filled in, this will not depend on the theology nor secrete club membership of famous pastors who set out to write the notes found in modern Study Bibles.

Story Grid Tech Notes

This week I changed some of the tech behind the Story Grid app. Our build system allows for app side rendering of Bible Quotes. This is only needed when an app quotes most of the text of the Bible more than one time. The Story Grid app is now quoting the TT subset of the BRB for something like 5 times. (With more coming, we are not yet showing diagonal reads.)

So this week's update carries the text of the Bible around only 1 time, and in its most dense form. This reduces the installed memory footprint from around 70 megabytes to around 27 megabytes. The original install time and later app update times will all be better. Our server will also take less of a bandwidth hit.

The cost of this change is the Bible's text is filled into quotes only when needed. Some users may see the text flash in when the various pop up choices are made. If this becomes a problem on someone's (probably unusual) hardware, please let me know.

Iran War Notes

At the beginning of this week we were still in a stand off between the Zionist west and Iran. The 2 sides had been exchanging proposals for an end to the war while a tentative cease fire remained.

Technically, Lebanon remained at war with Israel, breaking the agreed cease fire. So Iran was looking weak. Iran was most likely using the time to prepare for resumption of the fighting.

Trump appears to be the first to have blinked. Overnight heading into May 4, 2026, Trump announced his intention to escort ships out from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.

To many observers this looked something like a trap against Iran. If Iran were to shoot first, Trump would blame Iran for restarting the war.

This cat-and-mouse game continued off and on for most of the week. Near the end of the week there were various explosions in the UAE. Western media blamed Iran, who would disavow at least the initial attacks. But this was used as pretext for UAE to start a formal war against Iran.

By Friday of this week it looked like there was ongoing fighting between the UAE as a Zionist proxy and Iran. The Zionist war plan against Iran needs to foment civil war within Iran so as not to use western troops. This is theoretically possible in the south east of Iran as well as the north west. So the UAE as the starting point for a war might provide cover for ground operations in the far south east of Iran.

Watch Dates

Peeking ahead, the next watch date is 2026-05-19, we will return to that in next week's blog.

Shop Work

The shop work this week was a continuation of the hardware upgrade cycle going on with our 2 desktop machines. The old machine, called Flash, was originally purchased in 2017. The new machine, called Cilla was purchased in 2025 to replace Flash. (Flash and Cilla are named after the sloths in the original Zootopia movie.)

Cilla came with a new AMD graphics card. It worked with PopOS, but not with the 3d design software. So that original GPU card was replaced with a spare Nvidia graphics card from Flash, purchased when Flash was new. Everything then worked fine. Cilla, with PopOS and 3d design, has been running fine ever since.

In messing around with the next version of PopOS on Flash we found trouble with support for what is now an obsolete GPU. We don't need 3d design software on Flash, so Cilla's original AMD graphics could be used there. But alas, Flash's old BIOS cannot support the new AMD Graphics. So Flash is probably headed for Ubuntu server, on old graphics, or else Flash gets retired. (Flash is already something like 9 years old.)

Cilla, though is now running a very old GPU. To upgrade PopOS and keep running 3d design software means we need both a newer generation of graphics and an Nvidia Graphics card. I found the simplest new Nvidia card that would work with PopOS. It was available on Amazon and arrived this past week. That new card has new monitor cable plugs and needed new cables for the monitors. Those cables came in yet another Amazon order. All this new hardware on Cilla was swapped in. Cilla was now back in everyday working order, ready for the PopOS upgrade.

That upgrade also happened late this week. The install media offered to replace the existing operating system, but keep user accounts. This is a variation for Linux update that I'd not seen before. It worked pretty much perfectly. It did require reinstalling apps, which is not that hard. This form of upgrade left a pristine system configuration which was very nice. We reconfigure our desktop systems to match the production server configuration so we can test websites. So a clean system configuration after update was nice to have.

We normally update systems every 2 years jumping along using only Long Term Support (LTS) versions of Linux. Because PopOS was late, we have been nearly 4 years on the last LTS version of the OS. So it has been awhile since we did this sort of upgrade.

In all the upgrade work, we found only a minor configuration issue on the Nginx web server software. A change to our build environment fixed that problem. I have brought up copies of all of our websites and apps on Cilla. They are all running fine.

Paleo Keyboards

A major feature is how PopOS 24.04 drops system support for an old graphics system known as X11. We understand this change was done to clean up and speed up display handling across the desktop. The new Cosmic desktop system on PopOS is obviously very fast, much faster than the old system it replaces.

We use a font design tool called Font Forge which is based on X11. Turns out that tool runs fine on the new PopOS. We suspect because that app itself still has an X11 library that adapts, or shims, to the new graphics drivers.

But reports of dropping X11 worried us because we use a custom keyboard layout that lets us type in Paleo letters whenever needed. This is going to become very serious here soon as we start audit work. Updating all this software is happening now so I can keep working audit code.

Our custom Paleo keyboard uses a file format defined for use in X11. So we were worried there was either a new standard for keyboard layouts or that there would be no customization for keyboards.

To our great delight the same steps we first figured out in 2009 for installing this custom paleo keyboard still work now. PopOS did not change the basic keyboard customization file formats that have been around for years. Even though those formats were originally called out for use in X11.

We can now type in Paleo and we are ready to rebuild font files with audit related marginal marks as needed for audit work.

This has been a very nice week. We still need to update our laptops before going ahead with more audit work. More on this later.

Headline Review

The following caught my attention this week.

Fishing For War

This link is to a Health Ranger cartoon showing the status in the Strait of Hormuz. The Zionists need Iran to start shooting. So they are dangling US Navy ships hoping for a bite. So far, the Iranians have not taken the bait.

US Ships Turning Around

This was one of many posts dated May 4, 2026, where the US Navy ships that Trump sent to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz were fired on and had to turn around. The US side then said they would escort via radio. Strange week.

May 4 Games

Another post on Telegram detailing apparent US attempts to get Iran to shoot first in breaking the cease fire.

Wife's Cake

Cake Closeup Photo

In previous weeks I have been looking at Ben Givr's gallows as a possible match to Haman. He promoted a new Israeli law to use hanging as lawfare against Palestinians. Gallows are very rarely used in the modern world. They are relatively rare in the text. So matching Givr to Haman is worth at least noting in order to follow this story. There are many months before we get to possible replay dates for Esther and Haman.

This week this story got even stranger. His wife baked him a cake with a hangman's noose on the frosting. The links above provide photographic details.

In the text, it is Haman's wife who proposes the use of such a tool. See Esther 5:14. Now we see how Givr's wife is also involved in this strange story. Not good for him to see such matches lining up.

Scofield Bible Scam

This is a to a link on X where Natali Morris discusses the Scofield Bible scam. Should not be news to most readers here. We used the NIV Study Bible, not Scofield. Scofield is the grand-daddy of the genre. I have not read it, and don't intend to read it. But interesting background if you don't know the history and purpose for this first example of the crime.

Crow Feeds Cat

In 1 Kings 17:2-4 is the written account of Elijah being sent into hiding by a brook. Part of that story is how the ravens will feed Elijah. This story begs a question. Is this a symbolic story? So "ravens" are a name of a group of people who will feed the prophet? Or else is this literal, that actual ravens will feed the prophet?

The link above, if real, suggests this family of birds is known to feed others in need. The link here is to a post on X with a story about a crow feeding a sickly cat. Even after the cat was rescued, the crow kept returning each morning. Curious. Elijah probably had actual ravens feeding him, not figurative. Readers familiar with ravens are supposed to just know this.

Remembering Odessa

Memorial Candle

Flowers At The Gate

The links here are to various posts on Telegram that form a reminder that we just passed the 12th anniversary of the Coup in Ukraine that kicked off the current war with Russia.

Now that we know that event as the replay of resurrection morning, it is important to remember details, as this was the formal start for this prophetic day. This was the start of World War III, where the Zionists attacked Russia.

The main violence at that point was broader than Kiev. The worst was in Odessa.

Palestinians Out Of Jerusalem

The link here by the Cradle on Telegram suggests the Israelis are currently removing Palestinians from in and around Jerusalem. This is Ethnic Cleansing, a type of war crime. This is perhaps evidence of big plans for the city of Jerusalem itself.

Nuke Plant Strikes

The Zionists in Ukraine have been striking targets around a Russian nuke plant. This post has some details. Death cults are strange. They kill their own just as easily as others. In this case they will poison their own world. So are the rulers in Kiev locals from Ukraine? Probably not.

Famine Coming

This link is to a Youtube video on Daniel Davis' channel. He interviews Mike Adams. Adams sees ahead better than most. The argument in this video is how Trump has already triggered a global famine. So far, the risk is mostly in parts of the world where food is already scarce. As this gets worse this will reach North America as well. The Zionist death cult is at work.

Professor Jiang on DOAC

In this Youtube video the good professor lays out the basic parameters of World War III. This is a nice easy to understand high level introduction to the war ahead. Prophetic stories will give us more specific details as we go along.

Near the end, Jiang explains the Kabbalah based eschatology behind this war. He has argued in previous videos that the religion of secret societies is really driving war goals around Israel.

Jiang is usually citing official sources. So I don't dispute his report. But the Zionists behind this war don't know the story of Zacchaeus. They don't get the purpose and future of Israel.

More Later,

Phil